The corporate media and the rest of the Resistance had been flogging this event for months. By C.J. Hopkins.

Ray McGovern

Notes From a Russian American. By Pavel Kozhevnikov.

Russia has threatened to ban sales of a key rocket engine to the United States in response to new sanctions [supposedly] over the Skripal poisoning. By Alec Luhn.

Washington Goes Full Retard on the Russia Hoax. By David Stockman.

Trump may be paranoid, but he has real enemies among the emeriti of the intelligence establishment, and among them are the authors of three new books that collectively have sold up to a million copies: James Clapper, Michael Hayden, and James Comey. By Tim Weiner.

The conspiratorial mindset seeing Russia behind everything is increasingly a tool to demonize the establishment’s political enemies. By Alan MacLeod.

John Frankenheimer

Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola are joined by Aaron Maté, a host and producer for The Real News. He has regularly covered "Russiagate" and all the media coverage around President Donald Trump and Russia for well over a year.

Did the U.S. “Intelligence Community” judge that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election? By Jack F. Matlock. (June 29, 2018)

How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New McCarthyism. By CJ Hopkins.

Rosenstein and Mueller know that even if the Russians surrendered themselves to the U.S., the hacking case would never go to trial. The indictment is based on guesses and designed to manipulate public opinion against Trump. By Scott Ritter.

Here it comes, the moment we’ve been waiting for, when Trump and Putin meet in Helsinki to officially launch the Destruction of Democracy, and very possibly the Apocalypse itself. That’s right, folks, once again, it appears we’re looking at the end of everything… By CJ Hopkins.

On Spy Fiction. The spy novel departs from its social-realist cousins, even the police procedural: crime gathers a large web of social interactions; espionage remains sealed off from the world at large. Cause and effect do not ramify outward, in horizontal networks; they move from big, those cold brains in a small room, to little, in a vertical cascade. The answer is inside, but it is also obvious, a purloined letter too large for any other genre’s frame. By Nicholas Dames.

Researcher Matthew Hayes is looking into nearly 15,000 pages of documents detailing UFO sightings. He hopes to learn more about what these sightings, and the obsessive documentation of them, say about the nature of science and observation.

Alexander Dugin wants a left-right alliance against liberalism — and urged Russia to meddle in Western politics. By Conor Lynch.

Timothy Snyder doesn’t like Donald Trump. Really, really doesn’t like him. By Paul Robinson.

In The Road to Unfreedom, Timothy Snyder’s vision of history driven by rival states and ruthless statesmen undermines his own insistence on the importance of individual responsibility. By Sophie Pinkham.

When I trained as a journalist, we reserved a “Revealed” or an “Exposed” for those special occasions when we were able to bring to the reader information those in power did not want known. By Jonathan Cook.

Declassified US cables confirm the existence of a "national communication and cypher room" at the spy base in the Northern Territory. By Nick Miller.